Bloomberg: Tolbert was 'a one-man melting pot'

The AP’s report from the memorial service for Albany lobbyist Terence Tolbert:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a longtime New York political operative, who died while directing Barack Obama’s Nevada campaign, is looking down from heaven with “a smile on his face.”

Bloomberg delivered a Manhattan eulogy on Monday for Terence Tolbert (TOHL’-burt), a “son of Harlem” who died of a heart attack just two days before the election.

Tolbert was a chief lobbyist for New York City’s public schools at the state capital in Albany. His other previous roles included Bloomberg campaign strategist and chief of staff to state Assemblyman Keith Wright.